Momò
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Momò is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Tibetan མོག་མོག (mog mog), from Mandarin 饃饃／馍馍 (mómo).
- SNSenegal≈1 in 2.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 10K
- GNGuinea≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Momo in FR France, US United States, CI Côte d’Ivoire and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Tibetanམོག་མོགmog mog(measured from records)
- Mandarin饃饃／馍馍mómo(measured from records)
From Tibetan མོག་མོག (mog mog), from Mandarin 饃饃／馍馍 (mómo).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Momò counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Momo | 8 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 173 | Momo | 10 |
| SN Senegal | #250 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Momo | 15 |
| FR France | #994 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | 14 | Momo | 178 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Momo | 10 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Momo | 5 |
| US United States | — | 591 | 1 in 563K | 379 | Momo | 46 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Momò mean, and where does it come from?
- From Tibetan མོག་མོག (mog mog), from Mandarin 饃饃／馍馍 (mómo). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Momò a male or female name?
- Momò is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Momò have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Momò in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled momo.
- How common is the name Momò?
- In the United States, the national register counted 591 people named Momò in 2020, about 1 in 563 thousand residents.
- How common is Momò compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Momò is the 250th most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mom%C3%B2The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Momò” — the 250th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.